UK Removes Russian Mining Director From Sanctions List

The U.K.'s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation on June 25 removed sanctions from Aleksei Nikolaevich Filippovskii, director of PJSC Alrosa, a company operating in Russia's mining sector. The U.K. had sanctioned Filippovskii for working in a "sector of strategic significance" to the Russian government. OFSI didn't provide more information.